Microbial surface colonization and biofilm development in marine environments

H Dang, CR Lovell - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Biotic and abiotic surfaces in marine waters are rapidly colonized by microorganisms.
Surface colonization and subsequent biofilm formation and development provide numerous …

Cultivation of unculturable soil bacteria

VHT Pham, J Kim - Trends in biotechnology, 2012 - cell.com
Despite the abundance of bacterial species in soil, more than 99% of these species cannot
be cultured by traditional techniques. In addition, the less than 1% of bacteria that can be …

[HTML][HTML] Nitrogen-fixing populations of Planctomycetes and Proteobacteria are abundant in surface ocean metagenomes

TO Delmont, C Quince, A Shaiber, ÖC Esen… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Nitrogen fixation in the surface ocean impacts global marine nitrogen bioavailability and
thus microbial primary productivity. Until now, cyanobacterial populations have been viewed …

Emerging patterns of marine nitrogen fixation

JA Sohm, EA Webb, DG Capone - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2011 - nature.com
Biological N2 fixation is an important part of the marine nitrogen cycle as it provides a source
of new nitrogen that can support biological carbon export and sequestration. Research in …

Database of diazotrophs in global ocean: abundance, biomass and nitrogen fixation rates

YW Luo, SC Doney, LA Anderson… - Earth System …, 2012 - essd.copernicus.org
Marine N 2 fixing microorganisms, termed diazotrophs, are a key functional group in marine
pelagic ecosystems. The biological fixation of dinitrogen (N 2) to bioavailable nitrogen …

[HTML][HTML] Methodological underestimation of oceanic nitrogen fixation rates

W Mohr, T Großkopf, DWR Wallace, J LaRoche - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
The two commonly applied methods to assess dinitrogen (N2) fixation rates are the 15N2-
tracer addition and the acetylene reduction assay (ARA). Discrepancies between the two …

[HTML][HTML] Processes and microorganisms involved in the marine nitrogen cycle: knowledge and gaps

S Pajares, R Ramos - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Nitrogen (N) is a key element for life in the oceans. It controls primary productivity in many
parts of the global ocean, consequently playing a crucial role in the uptake of atmospheric …

Non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs: global diversity, distribution, ecophysiology, and activity in marine waters

KA Turk-Kubo, MR Gradoville, S Cheung… - FEMS microbiology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Biological dinitrogen (N2) fixation supplies nitrogen to the oceans, supporting primary
productivity, and is carried out by some bacteria and archaea referred to as diazotrophs …

Heterotrophic bacterial diazotrophs are more abundant than their cyanobacterial counterparts in metagenomes covering most of the sunlit ocean

TO Delmont, JJ Pierella Karlusich, I Veseli… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Biological nitrogen fixation contributes significantly to marine primary productivity. The
current view depicts few cyanobacterial diazotrophs as the main marine nitrogen fixers …

Marine non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs: moving beyond molecular detection

D Bombar, RW Paerl, L Riemann - Trends in microbiology, 2016 - cell.com
The nitrogen input through biological N 2 fixation is essential for life in vast areas of the
global ocean. The belief is that cyanobacteria are the only relevant N 2-fixing (diazotrophic) …